2027: Your ambition to clinch presidential ticket dead on arrival, Wike’s aide blasts Bauchi gov

Lere Olayinka, the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, has taken a swipe at Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed, accusing him of lacking the capacity to lead the Governors’ Forum of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

In a strongly worded statement, Olayinka dismissed Governor Mohammed’s ability to effectively steer the forum and went further to declare that the governor’s 2027 presidential ambition is “dead on arrival.”

“As for us, we are done with any object by the name Bala Mohammed. Reason is, we have better things to do and we won’t be available to be used by any ineffectual being to launch a dead-on-arrival 2027 presidential ambition”, he said.

In a statement yesterday, Olayinka said: “The appointment of Barrister Nyesom Wike as a Minister has remained the only excuse available for the Bauchi State governor to defend his glaring lack of capacity to lead the PDP as Chairman of the PDP Governors Forum.”

According to him, Wike is not the first member of opposition parties in Nigeria to serve as Minister and he won’t be the last.

Mohammed had accused Wike of lacking integrity, saying he ought to resign his membership of the PDP and concentrate fully on serving the President Bola Tinubu-led All Progressives Congress APC administration.

Going back memory lane, Olayinka said; “late Chief Bola Ige, a member of Alliance for Democracy (AD), was a Minister under the PDP Govt of Obasanjo.“

“Dr Olu Agunloye, a member of AD then was a Minister under the PDP Govt of Obasanjo.

“Mrs Modupe Adesanya, daughter of the late Afenifere leader and a member of AD was a Special Adviser under the PDP Govt of Obasanjo.

“Ibrahim Dasuki Nakande, a member of ANPP then, was a Minister under the PDP govt of late Umar Yar’Adua.

“Present Governor of Bauchi, Bala Mohammed, who was a Senator under ANPP, resigned from the Senate to accept Ministerial appointment under the PDP govt of President Goodluck Jonathan.

“Barrister Nyesom Wike, a member of the PDP is currently serving as a Minister under the APC govt of Tinubu.

“Bianca Ojukwu, a member of APGA, is currently serving as a Minister under the APC Govt of Tinubu.

“Now, the same Bala Mohammed, who left the Senatorial mandate he got as ANPP member to become Minister under a PDP govt is running his mouth like a faulty tap.

“He said he resigned after becoming a Minister, issorite. But the question is, as a Senator elected under the platform of ANPP, should he have accepted to be Minister under a PDP govt?”, he queried.

Olayinka said the fact that Bala Mohammed defected to the PDP few months after becoming a Minister “is a further demonstration of his anywhere-belly-face politics and obviously, if he was offered even a Special Assistant position by the APC Govt of Buhari in 2015, he would have accepted it and defected to the APC.”